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Brooks Camp,
Katmai National Park,
Alaska

Map: Brooks Camp, Katmai National Park, Alaska

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  • Unfortunately, technical issues and adverse weather conditions kept the National Park Service from getting the new camera and transmission system functional at Brooks Camp this season. We are, however, poised for next year's viewing season, and eagerly await meeting our new group of bears at Brooks Camp. Elizabeth Wasserman has given us more details on her "From the Falls" thread in the WildCam Grizzlies forum. In the mean time, we will be posting photos and video footage of McNeil River and Brooks Camp bears. Thank you for your patience and your dedication to WildCam Grizzlies!

About Brooks Camp, Katmai National Park, Alaska

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While some people differentiate among coastal brown bears, grizzly bears, and Kodiak bears, we are using the terms "grizzlies" and "brown bears" interchangeably.

Photograph by Roy Wood

Alaska's Katmai National Park is home to more than 2,000 grizzly bears—and every summer, around a hundred of these behemoths converge on Brooks Camp for a salmon feeding frenzy.

Vast and remote, Katmai covers almost five million acres (two million hectares) of Alaskan land and is accessible only by plane or boat. The park was established in 1918 to preserve the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an extremely deep ash flow created from the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

Every year in late June, Brooks Camp becomes the scene of a spectacular natural phenomenon as bears begin to congregate, drawn by their appetite for spawning salmon.

The National Park Service and the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska—partners in making WildCam Grizzlies possible—are committed to educating the public and fostering the conservation of Brooks Camp’s brown bears and their habitat.

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